Cover for fire-place ash-chutes



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C. A. WELLINGTON. GOV-ERFOR FIRE PLACE ASH OHUTES.

WITNEEEES- UNITEDv STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. WELLIGTON, OF LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

COVER FOR FIRE-PLACE ASH-CHUTES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 375,969, dated January 3, 1888..

Application liledMai-ch 23, 1885. Serial No. 159,832. (No model.)

' Chutes, of which the following is a full, clear,

and exact description, reference being had to.

the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in explaining its nature. It is common to arrange in fire-places and for open grates and for stoves an escape-passage for ashes opening from the floor of the lire-place or bottom of the open grate or stove, orirom the under surface of the compartments usually known as the ash-pit, and extending into a receptacle below. This opening has generally been closed by a valve or plate hinged to open in one direction only. As this plate or valve is covered by the grate and by ashes, access to lit is quite inconvenient, and it is generally customary to open the same by means of a poker or other similar device inserted below the grate and brought to bear upon the surface of the plate or valve to tip or turn it, and as the valveor plate turns only in one direction it is a matter often requiring time and experimenting to determine Where to apply the end of the poker in order to tip or open thedevice.

By my invention the Valve or plate is hung so that it may be Vtipped in either direction by with my improvement in place.

the application of pressure to either of the side edges thereof, and consequently can be easily operated, and overcomes the defects of the construction to which I have referred.

In the drawings, Figure l isa vertical central section of a {ire-place and ash receptacle Fig. 2 is a perspective view of thc casing and plate. v Fig. 3 is a vertical section upon the liuexx of Fig. 2, showing, however, the plate open in dotted outline and closed in full lines. Fig. 4 is a detail view of the casing. Fig. 5 is a detail view of one end of the frame.` f

A represents an open {ire-place. B is the grate therein. Cis the ash-pittor spaceinto which the ashes fall from the grate. D is the ash-chute or conductor, which has the opening d at its upper end. Into this opening is inserted the y have the rounded shoulders or rests e4.

cast-metal casing or frame E, which has the ledge e,which bears upon the shoulder e about the hole. There is formedin the end sections, e2, of the frame the recesses e3, which extend from the upper surface` downward upon the inner side of each of these end sections and These recesses form the bearings for the projections or pivots e5, which extend from each end of the covering plate or valve E', and in connection with the pivots furnish the support therefor. The plate when inserted in the casing will have its upper surface iiush with the upper `edge of the casing. It will be seen from this construction that the valve or plate can be turned in two directions-first, upon the pivots in position in Fig. 2, the sidef of the plate E being thrown down and the remainder of t-he plate being, of course,` elevated, (see Fig. 2,) and, second, upon the pivots which are shown as elevated, the sidef being thrown down and the remainder of the plate elevated. To prevent the plate from falling through the hole which it covers inL ease it should become disengaged from the casing, I have extended across the central part of the casing from end to end the rod g, which divides the spaceinto two parts, and furnishes an obstruction past which the plate cannot fall when dislodged from its bearings.

It will be observed that the pivotal points are so arranged in relation to each other that the portion of the plate at one side thereof is hea'vier than the portion at the other side, so that upon removing the pressure with which the plate has been tilted or turned and the turning of the plate from the inclined stationary position which it occupies when fullyopen the plate will automatically resume its horizontal position and the pivots which are not used will act as stops in preventing thel plate from falling below the casing.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- 1. The combination, with a [ire-place having a discharge-passage, of the casing E, .itted to such passage and having the right and left bearings c3 c3 e3 e3, and the covering-plate E',

having right and left pivots c e5 e5 c5, the pivrco ois projecting from the ends of the plate and 3. The combination ofthe casing E, having adapted to t the recess, as set forth. bearings e, and the protecting or securing 2. An ash-chute coveringplate which forms cross-rod or stop g, with the plate E, having the bottom of an ash-pit, and which is provided the projections or pivots e, which enter the 5 with two distinct pairs of bearing-pivots, combearing-recesses, all substantially as and for 15 bined with a frame or casing to support the the purposes described.

said plate, whereby the plate may be tilted CHAS. A. WELLINGTON. upon either of the two pairs of pivots, and Witnesses: whereby the ashes may be discharged in either F. F. RAYMOND, 2d,

1o ofthe two directions. FRED. B. DoLi-iN. 

